βράβυλον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βάρβιλος (bárbilos), βράβιλον (brábilon), βράβυλος (brábulos)
Etymology
Unknown, but maybe a loanword from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brá.by.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbra.by.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβra.βy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvra.vy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvra.vi.lon/
Noun
βρᾰ́βῠλον • (brắbŭlon) n (genitive βρᾰβῠ́λου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brắbŭlon |
τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brăbŭ́lō |
τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tằ brắbŭlă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βρᾰβῠ́λου toû brăbŭ́lou |
τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brăbŭ́loin |
τῶν βρᾰβῠ́λων tôn brăbŭ́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βρᾰβῠ́λῳ tōî brăbŭ́lōi |
τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brăbŭ́loin |
τοῖς βρᾰβῠ́λοις toîs brăbŭ́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brắbŭlon |
τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brăbŭ́lō |
τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tằ brắbŭlă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βρᾰ́βῠλον brắbŭlon |
βρᾰβῠ́λω brăbŭ́lō |
βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ brắbŭlă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βράβυλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βράβυλον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN